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# Transformation PM - Architecture & migration leadership

- **Company:** Kforce Inc.
- **Location:** Houston, TX, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Spreadsheets, Cloud Computing, COBOL (Programming Language), IBM DB2, Emulators, IBM Mainframe, Mainframes, OpenLink Endur, SAS (Software), Virtual Storage Access Methods, Z/OS, Data Management
- **Published:** June 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/38460310-579f-48af-93bd-f035f7a0ed87

## About the Role

* Experience with program and project delivery up to $10m budget & Teams up to 50
 * Experience with Agile & waterfall methodology
 * Domain knowledge e.g. Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR. Cloud, mobile, SAS, and digital. leadership, communication and resilience
 * Experience with stakeholder management and enabling value creation

## Description

Kforce has a client in Downtown, Houston, TX is seeking an experienced Transformation PM - Architecture & migration leadership (LPS System) for a hybrid role., * Agree and deliver programmes, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit, within company standards and controls framework

 * Proactively analyze variances against plan and trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments
 * Identify where a project may be at risk and take appropriate action
 * Engage internal and external stakeholders e.g. users/customers/suppliers to benefit from the delivered products, services and changes
 * Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behavior changes and maximize benefits
 * Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders' decisions are a timely and effective
 * Mobilise and lead teams with a mixture of staff and suppliers across organizational boundaries and the natural team
 * Ensure they have the necessary skills, capacity and experience to achieve the required outcomes
 * Develop the skills of team members through coaching, delegation and providing stretching assignments
 * Understand, assess and embed the right delivery methodologies, considering project and business constraints
 * Assess programme risks and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk and benefit, managing the business cases of your projects and workstreams
 * Ensure all deliverables are fit for purpose, meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and business-as-usual
 * Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit, agreed and delivered, Supports high value, high volume commercial activity, including:
 * Deal and contract entry for lease based purchases
 * Contract generation and maintenance
 * Pricing and run ticket processing
 * Division of interest (DOI) master data management
 * Payments and reporting, including 1099 tax reporting
 * SOX critical controls around contract and payment data

LPS is:

 * A large IBM mainframe application (z/OS)
 * Written mainly in COBOL/TELON, with DB2 and VSAM
 * ~5 million lines of code
 * Integrated with Endur, MCC, and other downstream systems

Costly to run and increasingly constrained by:

 * Mainframe capacity limits
 * Emulator and license costs
 * Integration complexity
 * Difficulty evolving logic (some logic has already "escaped" into Access/spreadsheets)


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